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[Béèm]

network connection issue
jim3630,
In all the spup's (B2 not yet installed) I have the issue of the carrier lost also. Sometimes the SNS works better, sometimes the network wizard.
I stopped reporting it.
My network device is the IPW2100 so nothing to do with broadcom.

[Stripe]

hi all

downloaded and did a manual install on the lappy

set it up and everything seems to be working fine
(edited .retrovolrc to get task bar volume control working but I think thats just my hardware )

synaptics seem ok (once I max the speed to 10 in min/max speed in flsynclient)

looking very good mick

cheers
stripe

[01micko]

Foe those with synaptics woes try to run this:

[Jades]

For running Slacko on the Pentium D machine, I'll need pnm2ppa in order to drive my HP Deskjet 720C. On Lupu I can download it from the Ubuntu repos on PPM but I haven't noticed a Slacko version. Testing Beta 2 on that machine will have to wait until tomorrow.

[jim3630]

[MinHundHettePerro]

Hello !

Just a report from a Brookdale (rev3) machine ....

There were these rectangular caleidoscopic patches if I on first boot and first restart of X (after personalising the settings) didn't move the mouse - and this is not material for The journal of Irrepeatable Results, I performed the fresh boot drill over and over and ... .

Anyway, tricking my way past this initial obstacle, making a savefile, rebooting and instructing the bootmanager to load the devx - upon next boot the puppeee-blue jwm-theme played tricks on me (yes, confirmed by repetitive experimentation) - Inactive foreground got set the same as Inactive background (quite interesting effect, really ).


Well, I couldn't leave it with that, tried a new approach - set i915.modeset=1 on the kernel line, after which I cannot, in any way, provoke the colourful patches again .

Hope this, as it looks, is the end to my i82845 Brookdale (rev3)-intel/i915 saga


By the way, .... vesa has always been acting up ..... (but, that's with most, if not all, of the recent pups I've tried on this machine ........... so no fret ....... ).

Cheers / MHHP

[Sage]

Fantastical - everything works first time. Got a FULL install. Would be even better if that old EudoraOSE .pet would work!

[Béèm]

[JonT]

01micko, saw the note about flloopfix on the first note for synaptics touchpads but (sorry) didn't catch the need to manually run it. I now have run it (need to run flsynclient first to create .flsynclient). For me, congratulations, you have fixed the touchpad! Curious as to when you sleep.

My Inspiron 1100 also has Brookdale (rev 03) graphics. (Shouldn't we get a group discount for pain and suffering?) I have not yet had the graphics problems that DaveS and MHHP have found, just the 50% failing to boot that is the kernel's/X's fault, not yours. I will try the i915.modeset per MHHP and and collect data to compare boot successes over the next few days.

[James C]

Fresh manual frugal install on the Athlon XP box.Everything working and no problems so far.


VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.4

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
4000 frames in 5.0 seconds = 799.990 FPS
3317 frames in 5.0 seconds = 663.365 FPS
3388 frames in 5.0 seconds = 677.581 FPS
3409 frames in 5.0 seconds = 681.695 FPS
3380 frames in 5.0 seconds = 675.902 FPS

[Béèm]

Installed B2 usual Lin'N'Win FRUGAL
Activated my application environment and all seems to work.

[zigbert]

First glance

- Slickpet: Some fun-sfs requires openGL, but there is no link to install this
- Pburn: Icons missing in the menu - I plan a fix.
- Pfilesearch: Buggy fileselect widget, and should be updated to 1.25
- Pbackup: Buggy fileselect widget, and should be updated to 3.1.9
- Pmirror: Buggy fileselect widget, and should be updated to 0.5-1

This was all I could find to blame. - Not much.....


Sigmund

[MinHundHettePerro]

Hello !

My "install-SM-langpacks-script" didn't work - there were no langpacks for SM-2.3, - revoked in favour of 2.3.2.

Slacko's SM-2.3 un-updatable to 2.3.2 .

Anyway, installed SM-2.3.2 - then ran seamonkey --version, which reports ..... 2.3.1 , so probably not entirely slacko's fault , guess SM dev's were panicky, and releasing updates panicly, due to the recently reported "fraudulent SSL certificate issuance".

Otherwise working nicely
Cheers / MHHP

[Jasper]

Hi 01Micko et al,

My Slacko 4.99.4 uses the multi-session CD/DVD option in conjunction with a USB stick (to which I save data in real time).

It is already working perfectly and is fit for comprehensive and immediate use should my ancient internal hard drive, with my trusty Lupu 5.10, fail.

I very much like the speed and ease of use of the SeaMonkey browser and email and the quick and effective on-the-fly sfs loader/unloader.

In case it may be worth mentioning, NicoEdit seems to appear under both the Utility and the Document headings in the Main Menu.

My regards and thanks

PS I have some 600 MB of RAM which enabled me to install Wine and a SeaMonkey upgrade plus six small pets, but I don't envisage any problems because I shall avoid saving much more to the CD/DVD as I am very close to my "RAM full" limit. I suspect, but I do not know that it may be necessary to have at least 512 MB RAM to run a successful multi-session CD/DVD even using tricks.

[Lobster]

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